Sentences with phrase «up of codons»

The set of instructions (or code) is made up of codons.

Not exact matches

And DNA is non-living because it is made up of dead material (e.g Codons and nucleotides), in additional to that all the structure of DNA composed of dead materials that are chemical components.

I have very little doubt that our generation will be looked back upon with jaw - dropping incredulity by future historians who will marvel at how, in the 21st century, having peered at the mind numbing infinity from Hubble, delved into the quantum irrationality of CERN and unraveled the beautiful simplicity of the DNA codons, we still made important life decisions based upon the presumed wishes of some hokey, invisible, all - powerful sky - fairy dreamed up by some illiterate Arab tribesmen in a tent in the Middle East 2,000 years ago.

Biochemist Nirenberg of the National Institutes of Health gave a seminar describing a groundbreaking experiment in which he and a colleague had discovered how the cell interprets messenger RNA — by reading one triplet, or codon, of nucleotide bases at a time — to line up the amino acids that form proteins.